Bucharest - 27 aprilie 2015
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Schoenherr has been recognized as "South East Europe Law Firm of the Year" (2015) by the renowned legal publisher Chambers and Partners. Schoenherr lawyers Monica Cojocaru (partner; Bucharest), Miloš Laković (partner, Moravčević, Vojnović & partneri OAD in cooperation with Schoenherr; Belgrade) and Marko Prušnik (partner, Ljubljana) accepted the award on behalf of the firm at the Chambers Europe Awards event held this past Friday evening at Amsterdam’s Hotel Okura.
"Our lawyers in South East Europe advised clients in many of the region's most prominent deals, restructurings and arbitrations over this past year. Winning Chambers' SEE award is very welcome recognition of the hard work our lawyers have put in on behalf of our cli-ents in the region," commented Christoph Lindinger, Schoenherr’s managing partner.
Established Leader in SEE Legal Market
Headline deals and matters on which Schoenherr advised in South East Europe in 2014 and 2015 include the ca. EUR 1 billion restructuring of the SEE retail group Mercator Group, the sale of the SEE banking network of the former Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Bank Interna-tional to Advent International and the EBRD, the privatisation of Slovenia’s primary air-port in Ljubljana through the sale of a majority stake to Fraport, the acquisition of Volks-bank Romania by Banca Transilvania, the restructuring and sale of Serbia's leading milk, water and confectionary brands (Imlek, Knjaz Milos and Bambi), and the sale of a major-ity stake in leading Slovenian brewer Pivovarna Laško to Heineken, to name just a few.
Schoenherr is present in the South East Europe region with offices in Belgrade, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Sofia and Zagreb. The firm also covers the markets in Albania, Bosnia and Her-zegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro through country desks. Lawyers in Schoenherr's SEE offices collectively account for nearly 45% of the firm's overall count of over 325 fee earners. In addition, Romania was the first market Schoenherr entered in CEE (namely in 1996) and its offices in Bucharest and Belgrade are the second and third-largest, respec-tively, among the firm's overall network of 13 offices in Austria, Brussels/EU and Central and Eastern Europe.
Strong Awards Track Record
Chambers decided to re-introduce a separate category for South East Europe in the 2015 Europe awards to reflect the growing quality and volume of legal advisory work in the re-gion. Schoenherr also won Chambers' SEE award the only other time the publication has extended this honour, namely at its inaugural Europe awards event in 2008.
The newest regional distinction from Chambers further extends Schoenherr's strong per-formance in the European legal industry's premier awards events. Most recently, Schoen-herr was recognized as "Austrian Law Firm of the Year" (2015) by The Lawyer, was hon-oured as the "Austrian M&A Legal Adviser of the Year" (2014) by Mergermarket's Euro-pean M&A Awards, and garnered the "Client Service Award for Austria" in the 2014 Chambers Europe Awards.
Schoenherr is a leading full-service law firm in Central and Eastern Europe. With 13 offices located in Belgrade, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest, Chisinau, Istanbul, Ljubljana, Prague, Sofia, Vi-enna, Warsaw and Zagreb, as well as country desks for Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Ukraine, Schoenherr provides its clients with comprehensive coverage of the CEE/SEE region.* More than 300 legal professionals work across borders in both a centralized and de-centralized manner, according to the individual client’s needs and requirements. Quality, flexibil-ity, innovation and practice-oriented solutions for complex assignments in the field of business law are at the core of the Schoenherr philosophy.
* Schoenherr is in compliance with the respective local legal standards and conduct rules in all countries; therefore, the local firm name may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Contact:
Christoph Lindinger, Managing Partner
T: +43 1 534 37 50130, E: c.lindinger@schoenherr.eu
Peter Klopf, PR & Marketing
T: + 43 1 534 37 50719, E: p.klopf@schoenherr.eu
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